Which is listed as a misdemeanor.

Right..which generally carry a fine and possibly jail time.
Kenyan Criminal Procedure Code:

Attempted ѕυιcιdє

:May arrest without warrant

:Imprisonment for two years

:Subordinate court of the first class

Look - if you think the scammers don't use real situations to get money- then donate to your heart's content. 

What are you talking about? I can point out that you may be wrong on a specific point while still being wary of OP

I posted a link to a news article and quoted the Kenyan law. Where is the mistake?

I need to spell this out for you? You made your opinion of the gofundme clear in your first and third posts in the thread, you believe it to be a scam. Your fourth post links an article saying "attempted ѕυιcιdє is no longer a crime in Kenya" which, to anyone with half a brain, is you attempting to catch the supposed perpetrators of the scam in a lie, as the woman is allegedly being tried for attempted ѕυιcιdє after the section of the Penal Code was ruled unconstitutional. I replied to you showing that the gofundme already made mention of that ruling, and that the woman is still being tried nonetheless. I do not know how Kenyan law works, neither do you. A judge ruling that the section is unconstitutional does not necessarily mean the penal code will be immediately revised..this is possibly evidenced by the official Kenya Law website still listing Section 226 in the Penal Code as a misdemeanor which can carry a sentence of up to two years and a fine

If I were a third party becoming acquainted with this story for the first time I would probably react in much the same way. That being said, I have been interacting with the people involved (Edith, her friend Sila, her brother and more recently her lawyer) in an organic way for several months and their behaviour and mannerisms do not match those of swindlers. This is even more obvious to me now that the majority of funds needed to pay the fine have been raised, not by gullible Westerners, but by Kenyans living in Kenya who know Edith personally, mostly friends of hers from university. I am working with the eminently trustworthy human rights lawyer mentioned in OP to investigate further; in the unlikely event that some kind of giga-scam is afoot, it will come to light in short order and GoFundMe's donor protection policies will come into play.

Charitable donations are never without risk; nonetheless, as someone who has been so invested in this situation the past couple weeks as to lose sleep and fail to meet deadlines at work over it, I genuinely believe that this is a case of a grave injustice that has fallen through the cracks and is worth considerable efforts to remedy.

If you would like to discuss this directly-please let me know. 

So was this a legit emergency or no?